{"id":2685,"date":"2021-02-14T21:01:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T02:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2021\/02\/unknowable-aspects\/"},"modified":"2021-02-14T21:01:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T02:01:40","slug":"unknowable-aspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2021\/02\/unknowable-aspects\/","title":{"rendered":"Unknowable Aspects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Echoing David Lynch&#39;s observations from an earlier post, filmmaker Stanley Kubrick on language as an anemic and unsatisfying medium of creative expression:<\/p>\n<p><em>There are certain areas of feeling and reality&#8230;or unreality or innermost yearning, whatever you want to call it&#8230;which are notably inaccessible to words. Music can get into these areas. Painting can get into them. Non-verbal forms of expression can. But words are a terrible straitjacket&#8230;. There&#39;s a side to the human personality that somehow senses that wherever the cosmic truth may lie, it doesn&#39;t lie in A, B, C, D. It lies somewhere in the mysterious, unknowable aspects of thought and life and experience.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nitch.com\/\">via<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\" [3234]\" class=\"galimg_lg galimg_lg_land\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/images_db\/prints\/large\/3234.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Echoing David Lynch&#39;s observations from an earlier post, filmmaker Stanley Kubrick on language as an anemic and unsatisfying medium of creative expression: There are certain areas of feeling and reality&#8230;or unreality or innermost yearning, whatever you want to call it&#8230;which are notably inaccessible to words. Music can get into these areas. Painting can get into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}